WW II Sub Replica Intercepted Near Queen Mary 2

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[Mr. Lucky]

Are there any gobs around who can comment on the turbulence this craft would expect to experience near the surface 100 feet from a ship that size?

[PGalt]

Perhaps he mis-interpreted the word “subway”. /sarcasm

[Sub-Driver]

Shhhhhh......

[meandog]

Looks more like a replica of an escape hatch to me...

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Apparently, northern Greenpoint has a high concentration of ROPers.

[Bladerunnuh]

Well, it certainly wasn’t terrorism, because, uh, well because it just wasn’t.

[Oztrich Boy]

Someone trying to re-enact the sinking of the Lusitania?

I think it's "Life imitates Art"

[From One - Many]

Bloomberg, Schumer and Clinton immediately demand that $2 billion be added to the homeland security bill to provide the NYPD with depth charges.

LOL

Did they appropriate more money for a Destroyer named the BloomerSmuckClintoon?

[null and void]

They had to stop them. Their vessel was substandard...

[Lx]

Was that the movie where they find an old WWII German sub that they use to attack a cruise ship?

[Roccus]

Do you really trust CBS to even KNOW what a WWII sub looks like???

SHEEEESH!

[Republicus2001]

I think they have their wars wrong. The Turtle was during the REVOLUTIONARY WAR! Yikes. Guess this is just doing the editing that Americans just refuse to do.

[Oztrich Boy]

Anthony Franciosa is supposed to be impersonating a British naval officer. He is told to pronounce lieutenant “leftenant” the British way and not “lootenant” the American way. But Anthony Franciosa let’s a “lootenant” slip out, and nearly ruins the whole operation, getting away with it by claiming a Canadian connection.

Assault On A Queen -1966-

Actually either way blows his cover. The correct Royal Navy pronounciation is a clipped "l'tenant"

[El Gato]

Doesn't look like any WW-II sub I ever saw. Not even those little mini-subs the Japanese used at Pearl Harbor, and elsewhere.

In fact it looks more like the "Turtle" which was used by the Revolutionaries against the British in that very harbor.

[FreePaul]

WW II Sub Replica...

That thing in the pictures didn't look like any WW II sub I ever saw. I wonder who made the comparison.

[Finny]

"The self-propelled submarine ..."

Huh? Is there any other kind??? "The snow, which was cold, ..."

[CHEE]

Looks more like a replica of an escape hatch to me...

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To my poor old eyes it looks like a toilet seat lid.

[CJ Wolf]

http://www.prismnet.com/~jrf/SubPics/

Google shows lots of homebuilt subs. I think I may start a new hobby now.

[Finny]

WTF?????

You can say that again. First it's the puzzling phrase in the article "self-propelled submarine" (kind of like saying a "round wheel"), and THEN I look further to see nothing even REMOTELY akin to a WWII submarine. It's like calling a old prop tri-plane as being a "Viet Nam War jet replica."

How on earth do companies that print articles like this even stay in business?

[Weeedley]

The poster of this thread was wrong by two centuries. The vessel bears a striking resemblance to the “Turtle,” the first American submarine, invented around 1775 in Connecticut by David Bushnell. That sub was designed as a naval weapon, and it was meant to drill into a ship’s hull and plant a keg of powder, which would be detonated by a time fuse.